Short Stories
What's the name of the Short story where the narrator emphasizes the careful calculation to carry out the perfect crime?
The Tell-Tale Heart
Who wrote The Tell-Tale Heart?
Edgar Allan Poe
What do apples symbolize?
Knowledge
What is a story-teller whose version of events cannot be trusted?
Unreliable narrator
A story about an old woman's attempt to get rid of wickedness in her town?
The Possibility of Evil
Who wrote The Possibility of Evil?
Shirley Jackson
In what ways can symbolism be used by writers?
Through objects, events, and characters
Two ways to describe a character
How many police officers does the madman talk to in The Tell-Tale Heart?
Three police officers
Gothic fiction
Throughout the story, Miss Strangeworth is symbolized with what object?
Her roses
Name the 4 types of unreliable narrators
Picaro, madman, naif, and liar
On what day did the madman finally kill the old man in The Tell-Tale Heart?
The 8th night
Edgar Allan Poe was one of the first American writers to embrace what format?
Short stories
Name two opposite things windows could symbolize
Freedom/imprisonment
"Miss Strangeworth never gave away any of her roses, although the tourists often asked her. The roses belonged on Pleasant Street, and it bothered Miss Strangeworth to think of people wanting to carry them away..." and "...she sometimes found herself thinking that the town belonged to her." are examples of what literary device?
Characterisation
What's the name of the person who destroys Miss Strangeworth's roses?
Don Crane
Mary Shelley
Name the object that symbolizes evil in The Tell-Tale Heart
The Eye
A literary device in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
Metaphor